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Flowers For Ever Single Occasion Including Death

As flowers purpose go for some that
purpose be the sweet elixir and
aroma that tantalizes our senses
into smelling and devouring it up 

While others seek to use it as an
accompaniment to place beside
a stolen secretive letter with confessions
of undying love at its very heart front
and center

Flowers are and still have both been
used to celebrate love and lust for
life as well as a tribute to mark death

Flowers are a focal point depicted on
countless Flag's so as to denote
different houses and on which side
you choose to fight or stand behind

I refer you to the war of the roses
one of which was white whilst
the other sides rose was red

And whereas some people choose to
cherish nourish and so grow them 
for the unbridled joy and love of
doing do

Many other people love more than
cutting them and prying them from
the ground and severing them from
the roots they have long laid down and
grown over it's lifetime

In whatsoever in particular category
under which you may count yourself
and fall

1 thing is for sure whether what or
why you indeed believe the purpose
of a flower is and or should be

So long as you are still able to appreciate
it's beauty and celebrate it's meaning

And take the time to stop inhale a deep
breath and smell it's ohh so very subtle
heady complex mix of what nature at 
It's finest has to offer

Otherwise you might or may just
as well be dead and buried already

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